Can this be used without async/await?

[roman-ku]

I tried removing the async/await and got this error:

with websockets.connect('...') as websocket:
AttributeError: __exit__

[qwexvf]

@roman-ku since it is based on asyncio you can't use without async/await....
why are you trying to remove them ?

Edit: i thought you was trying to use without coroutines features. sorry about misunderstood.

[aaugustin]

Yes, you can use websockets without async / await. You'll have to use @asyncio.coroutine and yield from instead. This is generally less convenient than async / await. The only reason I can think of for doing that is if you're stuck on Python 3.3 (which is uncommon, since major distros ship 3.4)

If your question really was "can I use websockets in a synchronously", as @qwexvf correctly points out, websockets isn't a good choice for you. In that case, I suggest using another library, as websockets is a very small library whose sole purpose is to provide a convenient asynchronous API.

[roman-ku]

@aaugustin @qwexvf

Yes my question was, can I use websockets synchronously. I need the response from the server before doing more stuff.

Alright thanks guys. I'll look for a different library.

[michaelschem]

Is there another library to use websockets synchronously?

[aaugustin]

I'm not super familiar with the landscape of other libraries.

Since this issue was filed, I started working on a solution to this problem, see #885.